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A to Z index - H
Habitual residence
Habitual residence test
- A2 nationals and the habitual residence test
- A8 nationals and the habitual residence test
- British citizens returning to the UK after a prolonged absence abroad
- Carers of children of EEA nationals and the habitual residence test
- EEA former workers
- EEA national jobseekers
- EEA nationals already claiming benefits and the habitual residence test
- EEA nationals in work or self-employed
- EEA nationals using paid services and the habitual residence test
- EEA nationals who are self sufficient and the habitual residence test
- EEA nationals, family members and the habitual residence test
- EEA students and the habitual residence test
- Failing the test - getting advice and support
- Failing the test - what to do
- Habitual residence test - overview
- How a decision is made
- Immigration control - who is subject to immigration control
- Irish citizens coming to the UK
- No right to reside - what to do
- Non-EEA nationals and the habitual residence test
- Proving your immigration status and intention to settle in the UK
- Who has to take the habitual residence test
- Who is exempt from taking the habitual residence test
Harassment
- Aggressive commercial practices
- Anti-social behaviour
- Builder is harassing or threatening you
- Debt - harassment by creditors
- Goods and services
- Nuisance and malicious telephone calls - how to stop them
- Online harassment, bullying and cyber-stalking
- Race discrimination - taking action
- Racial harassment
- Religion - discrimination because of religion or belief
- Religious harassment
- School - harassment and discrimination
- Sex discrimination - taking action
- Sexual orientation - harassment and discrimination because of sexual orientation
- Unfair treatment by creditors or debt collectors
- Workplace - harassment at work
Hardship payments
Hate crime
Health
- Frequently asked questions about health
- Information for people with learning disabilities
- See also: National Health Service
Health and Safety
- Accidents at work
- Employment rights
- Maternity rights at work
- Migrant workers employed in agriculture and food processing
- Pregnancy and childbirth discrimination when buying goods and services
- Restaurants - poor quality food
- Stress at work (Frequently asked questions)
- Whistleblowing - protection for workers
- Working hours
- Young people at work
Health in Pregnancy Grant
Health insurance
Health service
Healthy Start Scheme
Hearing impairment
- See: Disability
Heating
- Domestic heating oil - overview
- Feed-in-Tariff scheme for customers being paid for generating their own electricity
- Generating your own heating - options
- Generating your own heating - top tips
- Organisations and trade associations
- Renewable Heat Premium Payment Scheme - grants towards the cost of renewable heating systems
- Saving money by generating your own heating
- Saving money on fuel costs
- Warm Home Discount Scheme for households receiving the guarantee element of pension credit
Heating oil
- See: Domestic heating oil
Heat pumps
Hedges
Help with legal costs
Herbalism
High Court
High Income Child Benefit Charge
Higher education
- See: Students
Highways
- See: Streets
Hire
Hire cars
Hire purchase
- Does the seller have the right to sell - goods still on hire purchase
- Ending a hire purchase or conditional sale agreement - template letter
- Hire purchase agreements
- Problems with goods bought on hire purchase - letter to credit provider
- Problems with hire purchase agreements
- Regulated hire purchase agreements
- Secondhand car - getting a hire purchase check
- Secondhand car - the car you bought is still on hire purchase
- Secondhand car bought on credit
HIV
HM Revenue and Customs
Holiday clubs
- Cancelling a holiday club agreement outside the cooling-off period
- Cancelling a holiday club agreement - what happens
- Cancelling a holiday club agreement within the cooling-off period
- Changing your mind about holiday club membership
- Cooling-off period for a holiday club agreement
- Definition of a holiday club
- Holiday clubs - overview
- Marketing
- Pressure selling
- Scams
- Timeshare Regulations - is your holiday club agreement covered by the regulations
Holiday contracts
- Do you have a contract
- Holiday accommodation - display of prices
- Independent travellers - compensation for breach of contract
- Independent travellers - holiday problems and holiday contracts - overview
- Independent travellers - terms and conditions
- Pricing
- Who the contract is with
Holiday pay
Holidays
- Accident or illness on holiday abroad - independent traveller
- Accommodation company goes out of business - independent traveller
- Accommodation - complaints
- Accommodation is overbooked
- Accommodation - taking a complaint further if you are an independent traveller
- Accommodation - you are unhappy with your accommodation
- Airline has gone out of business
- Arrest abroad
- Bank holidays
- Becoming ill on holiday - treated as sick leave
- Bonding schemes
- Booking a holiday
- Breach of contract - independent travellers - compensation
- Building work spoils your holiday
- Cancelled by the holiday company - independent traveller
- Cancelling a holiday - independent traveller
- Car accidents abroad
- Car hire
- Compensation claims
- Contracts - do you have a contract
- Criminal offences abroad
- Deaths abroad
- Destination may be dangerous - independent traveller
- Employment - holidays and holiday pay
- Flight-Plus holiday - rules giving you extra protection
- Flights booked with hotel or car hire - your rights if a company goes out of business
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office travel advice for independent travellers
- Frequently asked questions about holidays
- Getting retirement pensions abroad
- Holiday cancelled or cut short - making a claim on your travel insurance
- Holiday company goes out of business - decision tree
- Holiday company goes out of business - independent traveller
- Holiday company wants to increase the price - independent traveller
- Holiday didn't meet the brochure description
- Holiday protection schemes
- Imprisonment abroad
- Independent travellers - contract terms and conditions
- Independent travellers - holiday problems and holiday contracts - overview
- Insurance - vehicle insurance for travel abroad
- Items lost or stolen abroad
- Medical treatment abroad
- Money - running out of money abroad
- Noise spoils your holiday
- Organisations
- Provisional bookings
- Returning early from a holiday due to illness or emergency
- Services - problems
- Taking children out of school in term times
- Transferring money abroad
- Travel agent goes out of business
- Travel insurance
- Untaken holiday
- Visa requirements for British citizens
- See also: Holiday contracts
Home detention curfew
Home energy efficiency schemes
- See: Energy efficiency
Home improvements
- Grants, loans and other assistance for home improvements and repairs
- Overview of building work and home improvements
Home insulation
Home insurance
Homelessness
- Armed Forces - help for veterans and for people leaving the Armed Forces with finding somewhere to live
- Domestic abuse - people experiencing physical or emotional abuse in a relationship
- Finding accommodation
- Mortgage arrears - threat of losing home
- Older people - housing options
- Shelterline - housing advice line
- Voting in elections
- Young people
Homeopathy
Homeowners Mortgage Support
Home Report
Homeshare
Homeworking
Honours List
Hospitals
- Benefit cap - exemption
- Complaints about services and treatment
- Hospital treatment - patients' rights
- Hospital waiting lists
- Mobile phone use in hospital
- NHS hospital charges for people from abroad
- Private hospitals - complaints
- Retirement pension for hospital in-patients
- Traffic accidents - charges for treatment
- Violent patients
- Voting in elections
Hostels
Hotels
- Flight-Plus holiday - rules giving you extra protection
- Holiday flights booked with hotel or car hire - your rights if a company goes out of business
- Package holiday problems
Houses in multiple occupation
Housing
- Anti-social behaviour
- Armed Forces - help for veterans and for people leaving the Armed Forces with finding somewhere to live
- Armed Forces Home Ownership Scheme
- Buying a home
- Buying a home - first time buyers' guide
- Crofts
- Frequently asked questions about housing
- Home buying schemes in Scotland
- Houses in multiple occupation
- Older people - housing options
- Private sector tenancies
- Problems with buying or selling a home
- Problems with tenancies
- Public sector tenancies
- Scottish Public Services Ombudsman - complaints about housing authorities and local authority housing
- Selling a home
- Shelterline - housing advice line
- Waiting lists for housing authority housing
- See also: Accommodation
- See also: Housing repairs
- See also: Mortgages
Housing associations
- Finding housing association accommodation
- Problems with tenancies
- Public sector tenancies
- Right to Repair scheme
- Scottish Public Services Ombudsman - complaints about housing authorities and local authority housing
Housing benefit
- Bedroom calculator for social housing tenants whose home is larger than they need
- Bedroom tax - bedroom calculator for social housing tenants whose home is larger than they need
- Bedroom tax - housing benefit cuts if your social housing is considered too big for you
- Benefit cap - exemptions
- Benefit cap - overview
- Benefit cap - what you can do
- Benefit cap - which benefits are included
- Benefit changes from April 2013 - what the changes mean
- Civil penalty for causing an overpayment
- Claiming housing benefit
- Complaints about poor service
- Cuts - things that can affect whether your housing benefit is cut
- Cuts - what you can do if your housing benefit is cut
- Cuts if your social housing is considered too big for you
- Housing benefit - general
- Local housing allowance
- Rapid reclaim
- Restrictions
- Spare room subsidy - housing benefit cuts if your social housing is considered too big for you
- Under-occupancy charge - housing benefit cuts if your social housing is considered too big for you
- Young people
Housing grants
Housing Ombudsman
- See: Ombudsman
Housing register
Housing repairs
- Care and repair scheme for owner occupiers, private tenants, crofters and disabled people
- Disabled tenants - alterations
- Disrepair and discrimination
- Grants, loans and other assistance for home improvements and repairs
- Insurance covering repairs
- Legal action against your landlord
- Rented accommodation
- Right to Repair scheme for local authority and housing association tenants
- The Repairing Standard - resolving disputes between private tenants and landlords
HP
- See: Hire purchase